Growth and development is an important life phenomenon, therefore, normal growth and development is the fundamental guarantee of human physical and mental health. There are many factors affecting height growth, the most important ones are as follows: Genetic factors: 70% determined by heredity Although heredity accounts for 70% of height, it does not mean that it is unchangeable, and acquired nutrition, exercise, sleep, etc. play a very important role in increasing height. Nutritional factors: partiality affects height An unbalanced supply of food and partiality often affects a child’s final height. Therefore, when parents find that their children are lower than normal children of the same age, do not ignore the nutritional factors, usually should eat more food containing calcium, such as 1-2 bags of milk, eggs, etc. should be guaranteed every day, in addition, the intake of vegetables and fruits must not be less, to ensure a balanced nutrition. When you find that your child’s height is a head shorter than normal children, don’t wait blindly, you should take your child to a regular hospital for consultation. Endocrine factors: Insufficient secretion of growth hormone Insufficient secretion of growth hormone, sex hormone and thyroid hormone. Insufficient secretion of growth hormone is the main reason for the lack of height, so you should go to the hospital to test whether the value of growth hormone is normal. Premature secretion of sex hormones will also affect the final height. Insufficient secretion of thyroid hormones will not only cause short stature but also affect intellectual development. Exercise: Jumping high, jumping rope, swimming, playing ball, gymnastics, soccer and basketball can help height growth. After exercise, the secretion of growth hormone reaches its peak, which will promote the proliferation and differentiation of cartilage cells at the epiphysis of long bones and make people grow taller. Sports that help to grow taller. Such as linear sports: jumping high, jumping rope, swimming, playing ball, playing gymnastics, playing soccer, playing basketball, etc. You should seize every opportunity to let your child exercise more, so as not to lower the threshold of future employment and spouse selection because your child is excellent in all aspects but does not meet the height standard. Boys generally start to enter puberty at the age of 13 and girls at the age of 12. If they miss the best growth period, no matter how hard they work afterwards, it will not help. Some children enter puberty too early, clinically the second sexual characteristics of boys before the age of 9 and girls before the age of 8 is called “precocious puberty”, precocious children were taller than children of the same age, but because of the premature start of the gonadal axis, resulting in the final height of short. Sleep: The child who can sleep grows a sufficient amount of sleep to ensure growth, especially do not destroy the physiological sleep time. Because, normal human secretion of growth hormone is pulsed secretion, the daytime pulse is very low, and the amount of growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland is highest between the deep sleep time (11 p.m. to 1 a.m.) at night, which is half of the total 24 hours, so don’t let your child sleep too late, which affects the normal physiological secretion of growth hormone peak and thus affects the growth. Mental factors: mental deprivation dwarfism long-term mental stress or parental divorce, domestic violence, will affect the growth and development of children, there is a clinical dwarfism called “mental deprivation dwarfism”. Parents should give their children a relaxed and happy family atmosphere, so that they can grow taller in a healthy and harmonious family environment. Parents can address the above factors that affect the growth of their children according to the actual situation of their children. If the child’s short stature is not caused by these reasons, parents should not blindly listen to some false height increase advertisements, because most of the advertisements are oral height increase drugs, but the scientific development to date, there is no clinical confirmation and recognition can be oral height increase drugs have a definite effect on height growth, and scientists are still developing. At present, clinically, we use injectable growth hormone for short children to increase their height, but we must strictly examine and treat the cause correctly.